The Livingston enterprise. [volume] (Livingston, Mont.) 1883-1914, 1887-07-16
NEWS OF THE WEEK.

Slight earthquake tremors continue t
be felt at different points in lower Sout
Carolina.
Mrs John Witter was arrested at Den
yer this week for causing the death of he
husband by the administ ration of arsenic
Jacob Sharp, the New York brlbe giver
has been sentenced to four years in TIN
penitentiary at hard labor and to pa.
fine of $4,000.
All six Of the bodies of the miners wht
were entombed in the Comstock mine a
Virginia City, New, few days ago have
been recovered.
| A young man, nineteen years of age
named George Abicus, was drowned II
Hangman's creek, near Spokane Falls
last Saturday night. while bathing. Tht
body was recovered.
r. F. Cowan. supreme keeper of rec
ords and seals of the Knights of Pythias
died at his home in St. Louis Thursday
last. He was also Royal Arch Masor
and an Odd Fellow in high standing.
An organized mob of 200 strong, re-
moved Hong Di Chinaman from the
Jail at Colusa, Cal, last Sunday night and
hung him. He had just been sentenced
to Imprisonment for life for the murder
of Mrs. Billan.
A band Of six Kickapoo Indians, were
camped at East St. Louis, and engaged in
selling moccasins and other Indian wares
for whipping an iniqultous white youth
cot into battle with the citizens of that
place which resulted in the killing of two
or three of their number.
DR.. McGlynn has finally been excom-
muncated by the pope. The papal
brief sets forth the contumacy of the
| priest and refers with sorrow to his per-
sistency in defying the church, which has
been so anxious to see him repent and dc
pcnance for the scandal that he has pro
voked
A fire broke out on the stage of the Al
cazar theatre at Hurley, Wisconsin, last
Saturday night, and within an hour the
entire business portion of the town was in
flames. Seventeen person perished by
the burning of the theatre, and among is
named Mrs. Fenton. The loss by fire is
over 81 100000.
Near Spokane Falls last Friday, the
house of Thomas Waymock was burned
to the ground. Two children in the
house alone were burned to death before
assistance could be rendered. The
mother was at a eighbor's, two miles dis
tant, and the father was in this territory
engaged as laborer in the Drum Lumor
mine.
Col. Dodge, at Fort Pierre. Dakota, ha:
received orders to concentrate his regiment
at Fo,t Yates as soon as possible and pro
ceed by rail to Duluth and across the
lakes to Buffalo, N. Y. The Twelfth in
fantry has not arrived at the fort yet
The post traders and residents at tht
posts are uneasy over the prospect of be
ing left without military protection, a
between 800 or 400 Indians are loafne
around.
A phenomenal shower of sand flies Wis
tied St. Paul on the evening of the 13tl
inst. Millions upon millions covered th'
sidewalks in a solid mass. They flockec
about the electric and street lamps and
lighted upon the windows in flocks. Pc
destrians crushed them as if walking il
jelly. At Bridge Square they must have
been two inchest deep on the ground, an(
at the Union depot they caused White
Bear passengers to stampede.
A special from El Paso, Texas, says
In spite of military reports to the contra
ry, only a small fraction of the hostile
Apaches have been captured by Genera
| Miles. The remainder of the band, mum
bering one hundred warriors, are at pres
ent encamped in valley twenty mile
northeast of Laguna, Santa Maria. Their
retreat was discovered by two Ell Pas
prospectors, who were attacked and boil
shot. A number Of other outrages wer'
committed, and that whole section O
country IS in state of excitement.
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